Cleaning my kitchen with my Pandora power pop station playing, and I drank too much coffee and need to get this stuff out of my head before it explodes:
Green Day's "Brain Stew" is really just a slowed down cover of Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4".
I've developed an irrational hatred of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Mother's Milk was their last album I can stand to hear any track from.Note to Pandora--whatever Weezer/Chili Peppers connection you're making doesn't work for me.
Robin Zander's vocal performance on the Budokan version of "I Want You to Want Me" is one of the best in the history of pop music.
Not sure what AC/DC's doing on my power pop station, but I wonder how Brian Johnson can even talk, much less sing after 30 years of singing like that.
Van Halen's "Dance the Night Away" is a great pop song. They successfully painted Diamond Dave as the bad guy at the time, but Eddie hasn't been able to keep anybody but his brother in a band with him.
Many lyrics are so bad because lyricists don't have editors. This is why partnerships--even seemingly unequal ones like Hall and Oates--are always better than the subsequent solo work; each partner keeps the other's excesses in check. Would Morrissey make such turgid crap right now if he still had to bring the songs to Johnny Marr? Don't even get me started on the post-Beatles excesses of both Lennon and McCartney...
Pandora-- Just because I put Weezer into this station doesn't mean I want to hear every semi-alternative band from the 90's. Pavement is one of the most "meh" bands ever.
That's all I got for now. I'm off to see Ninja Assassin.
